Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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John Rice Jones (1759-1824) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Potosi, Washington
County, Mo.
Born in Mallwyd, Gwynedd, Wales,
February
11, 1759.
Lawyer;
member
Indiana territorial council, 1805-08; member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Washington
County, 1820; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1820-24; appointed 1820; died in
office 1824.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., February
1, 1824 (age 64 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Myers F. Jones —
of Missouri.
Member of Missouri state legislature, 1830.
Died in Texas.
Burial location unknown.
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John Scott (1782-1861) —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., May 18,
1782.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1814-17; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Missouri Territory, 1816-17, 1817-21; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1821-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., October
1, 1861 (age 79 years, 136
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
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Andrew Scott (1789-1851) —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., August
6, 1789.
Lawyer;
justice
of Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1819-25; member of Arkansas
territorial House of Representatives, 1831.
Scottish
ancestry.
Killed Joseph
Selden, another Arkansas Territory judge, in a duel
on an island in the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark., May 26, 1824.
Died in Norristown, Pope
County, Ark., March
13, 1851 (age 61 years, 219
days).
Original interment at Dover
Cemetery, Pope County, Ark.; reinterment at Oakland
Cemetery, Russellville, Ark.
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John Rice Jones (1792-1845) —
of Texas.
Born in Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., January
8, 1792.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; served in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Postmaster General, 1835-36, 1839-41.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Fayette
County, Tex., 1845
(age about
53 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Tex.
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George Wallace Jones (1804-1896) —
also known as George W. Jones —
of Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa.
Born in Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., April
12, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1835-36; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1836-39; U.S.
Surveyor-General for Iowa & Wisconsin, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1848-59; U.S. Minister to New Grenada, 1859-61.
Welsh
ancestry.
In 1861, was arrested
in New York City by order of Secretary of State William
H. Seward on a charge
of disloyalty,
based on correspondence with his friend Jefferson
Davis; imprisoned
for 64 days; released by order of President Abraham
Lincoln.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, July 22,
1896 (age 92 years, 101
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.
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John Rice Homer Scott (b. 1813) —
also known as John R. Homer Scott —
of Arkansas.
Born in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., October
16, 1813.
Democrat. Farmer; merchant;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1873; delegate
to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1874; Arkansas
Democratic state chair, 1878.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Russel Jones (1823-1909) —
also known as J. Russel Jones —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Conneaut, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, February
17, 1823.
Republican. Secretary-treasurer, Galena and Minnesota Packet
Co.; founder and president, Chicago West Division Railway;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1860; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1868-70; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1869-75; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1875-77.
Christian
Scientist.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
11, 1909 (age 86 years, 53
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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